One possible condition that the application of a thin layer of palladium on the surface of nickel might enable is the production of micro-particles of palladium as the absorption of hydrogen breaks up the palladium lattice. The palladium micro particles would amplify the energy supplied by the input heat in the crack boundaries between the palladium micro-particles as these particles partially retain their connections on the surface of the nickel mesh. This harkens back to Ed storms hypothesis about cracks being an essential process in the LENR reaction.
The discontinuity in the palladium lattice inherent in the surface coating process might amplify the absorption of deuterium in the ultra-thin cracking palladium surface. A SEM can image this process on the surface of the mesh if it is occurring. On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 3:23 PM JonesBeene <[email protected]> wrote: > Hydrogen adsorbs rapidly into cold palladium. At about 260°F hydrogen > begins to desorb slowly. When gas is absorbing, the nanoparticle heats up > and when it is desorbing it cools down. No arguments there. > > > > At somewhere around 300°F there is an emergent see-saw dynamic where the > cooling (caused by desorption) reverses the flow and permits re-adsorption > -- and the heat created by that then encourages further desorption, ad > infinitum. This back and forth process can be viewed as a rapid pumping > effect. Nanoparticles speedup the oscillation rate. > A good paper on adsorption and desorption of hydrogen into palladium is: > “Adsorption > and Desorption of Hydrogen by Gas-Phase Palladium Clusters Revealed by In > Situ Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy.” Masato Takenouchi, et al. > > > > A second, reinforcing activity for that See-saw activity is happening > when hydrogen is present along with red photons. At the same reactor > parameters (as the palladium adsorption/desorption cycle) we can have an > optical reflectivity cycle. A helpful paper is: > > “Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances: A Review of Properties and > Applications” V. G. Kravets et al. > > > > Red photons of one wavelength have an unusual (anomalous) effect on > palladium as they form plasmons –the metal strongly absorbs 95% of photons > at 650 nm but light of higher and lower wavelength is mostly reflected. > This can create a thermal cycling which is also a pumping action but only > when hydrogen is adsorbed. That is because hydrogen quenches the optical > anomaly. Thus there is positive feedback between the two systems. There is > an opto-thermal resonance as well as positive feedback. > > > > The major intermediate result seems to be a rapid pumping action moving > molecules of hydrogen in-and-out of the palladium nanoparticles - assisted > by resonant photon irradiation. > > > > From there on - it is not clear what exactly this pumping action > accomplishes - but one intriguing possibility is condensation - IOW this is > how hydrogen becomes densified. Following densification, other things can > happen, but it would be a big step forward to optimize the condensation > step. > > > > Jones > > > > > > > > >
